The Patriot Post® · Obama's YouTubing Is Embarrassing

Since 2010, the White House has invited fawning political neophytes to converse with the president after his State of the Union address. It’s another way for Barack Obama to circumvent the watchdog media and virtually kiss babies. This year, three entertainers who garnered fame on YouTube “interviewed” Obama. Instead of pitching the hardball questions, Hank Green thanked the president for ObamaCare. Bethany Mota, 19, who earned a following for dispensing fashion advice, admitted she didn’t care about politics until YouTube asked her to conduct the interview. And so, Obama used her naiveté to his advantage by twisting the history of American education, saying politicians created the first colleges. Comedian GloZell Green, who pulled stunts like bathing in a bathtub of milk and Fruit Loops, probably asked the hardball question of the evening when she said former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro “puts the d— in dictatorship.” The interviews were embarrassing – even for Obama, as he was hugging himself at one point. “He’s got a good sense of humor – that’s a political asset,” media analyst Howard Kurtz said. “But it just seemed beneath the dignity of the office to be hanging out with some of these YouTubers.” But the one who is really beneath Obama’s dignity, the White House made clear, is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. More…